Like New York City, James McCourt’s unconventional memoir feels like a work simultaneously complete and still in progress. Read More
From the moment I read the first line of this book, In those days, everyone knew everyone on the island,...
In five distinct chapters woven together through a deep sense of nostalgia and a detective-like wistfulness, How to Disappear: A...
Intolerable (Harper Collins) is remarkable. One of its most striking qualities is that unlike most coming out or coming-of-age tales, Kamal Al-Solaylee...
Barneys Creative Ambassador-at-Large Simon Doonan has made a name for himself in what he describes as his “jarring and punky and intentionally shocking” window displays. In his new book The Asylum, a collection of fashion-related autobiographical essays, Doonan also continues to make a name for himself as a writer. Read More
In addition to revealing some of his thought processes, the content of his final journals, A Heaven of Words as edited by Jerry Rosco, cements Wescott’s significant role in gay cultural history. Read More
Joel Derfner, in Lawfully Wedded Husband, has crafted a compelling memoir of love and family enriched by social history, politics, and sharp commentary on the state of our popular culture. Read More
Herbert Huncke, heretofore a footnote in biographies of the Beats, has long deserved his own biography, and in American Hipster...
A life is made of many parts, but even the wildest stretch of the imagination could not fully account for...
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I was fully prepared to strongly dislike Filip Noterdaeme’s...
